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What Can You Do to Help You Stay Strong for Your Family Member?

When the end is feeling closer than ever for your family member, you might find it more difficult to hold things together. This is normal, but it’s something that caregivers can find troubling because they’ve been holding things together to this point. Take a good look at what you’re doing to cope.

Hospice Care in Vance SC: Staying Strong for Your Family Member

Avoid Going through This Alone.

Of all the points to try to soldier through on your caregiving journey on your own, this is not one of those times. The end of your family member’s life is difficult to manage on so many levels. If other family members are able to help, then definitely take advantage of whatever assistance they can provide. This is a painful situation that you don’t have to go through on your own.

Face Your Feelings.

You’re going to experience a wide range of different feelings and they can really be overwhelming. The last thing you need during this time is to go through an emotional breakdown and not be there for your family member. Hospice care services can put you in touch with assistance that you might need in order to work through these feelings. Grief counseling and general therapy can give you incredible tools to use to manage your emotions.

Find Ways to Fill Your Cup.

What is it that feeds you and fills your cup? In order to give back and to fully be there for your family member, you need to be able to refill your own cup. Music, reading, taking classes, and a million other activities could be ones that help to rejuvenate you. If you put those on hold and avoid doing them, you’re depriving yourself, which in turn deprives your family member. Keep yourself healthy and happy so that you can be there for your family members.

Stop Neglecting Your Physical Needs.

Grief can keep you from sleeping, eating, and exercising. It can make you feel as if you don’t want to do much of anything, but that’s a dangerous state of affairs for you. Just as you need to be emotionally rejuvenated, you need to make sure that your physical needs are being met. If they aren’t, you’re going to be too worn down to be of any help.

This isn’t an easy time for you, for your family member, or for anyone else who loves you both. You don’t have to be the strong one all day, every day, but there are ways that you can help yourself to avoid falling apart if that is what you’re trying to avoid.

If you or your aging loved one could benefit from Hospice Care in Vance, SC, contact the caring staff at Grove Park Hospice, (803) 536-6644

About Charles Thompson, Owner

Charles Thompson is a lifelong resident of Orangeburg and is a graduate of the Univ. of South Carolina School of Pharmacy, where he was inducted into the Rho Chi Honors Society.
He is owner and chief executive officer of Orange Cut Rate Drugs, Grove Park Pharmacy and Home Medical Equipment, Orange Nursing Home Services, Branchville Pharmacy and Grove Park Hospice Care.
He was one of the developing partners of The Village, a professional and medical office park on the St. Matthews Road in Orangeburg, as well as several similar Real Estate developments in Summerville and North Charleston, and here in Orangeburg County.
He is a past board member of The Downtown Orangeburg Revitalization Association, and past chairman of The Downtown Economic Restructuring Committed, as well as serving as chairman of The Regional Medical Center Foundation Board.
Charles has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Community Resource Bank and as a member of the Board of Directors of Community Bankshares, Inc. He is also a member of the board of The Orangeburg Calhoun Community Foundation.
Over the years, he has actively served on many charitable boards and civic committees, and was named The Small Businessman of The Year by the Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce.
Married to Cheri Brown Thompson of Orangeburg, they have three grown daughters and two adopted sons. Cheri founded The Healing Species, a charitable non-profit organization that takes dogs into schools to teach a program of compassion, empathy, non-violence, and anti-bullying.